--- title: In the spring Nathan in Cork pretended to be ill to miss church, lie… — Confession, prayer and making amends at church · tree and pragmatics description: In the spring Nathan in Cork pretended to be ill to miss church, lied about his prayers, and drew on the hymn book. Who acts: Nathan. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nathan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:0 # text = In the spring Nathan in Cork pretended to be ill to miss church, lied about his prayers, and drew on the hymn book. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 Nathan Nathan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Cork Cork PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 pretended pretend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 10 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 miss miss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 13 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 lied lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 16 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 prayers prayer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 drew drew VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 hymn hymn NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pretend** | past | Nathan in Cork | | | | spring | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Nathan in Cork *not said here* | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **miss** | to-infinitive | Nathan in Cork *not said here* | church | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer church=Stimulus | | 4 | **lie** | past | Nathan in Cork *not said here* | | | | | about Nathan's prayers | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about prayer=Location | | 5 | **drew** | past | Nathan in Cork *not said here* | | | the hymn book | | | tree rules | | 6 | **pray** | | Nathan | | | | | | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:0`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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